Exam 12: Changes to the Union or the Employer

What is the term used to describe events such as downsizing, work being partially or completely shifted to other locations or countries, or increased industry competition leading to changes in working conditions or redesigned work?

In order to assess whether successorship exists, the labour board looks for an employer's anti-union animus.

Discuss the trend of union mergers in Canada. What are the advantages of these mergers? (Pages 361-364)

Comment on the importance of the decertification process.

If a labour board finds sufficient evidence of continuity or complete abdication of responsibility by a business owner, a declaration of successorship will be issued.

Discuss the impact of workplace restructuring on unions and discuss some union responses to restructuring. (Pages 368-371)

Why did the 2014 Ontario Labour Relations Board's chair, Bernard Fishbein's decision in favour of the Richtree Market staff make sense for the 50 unionized workers? ?

Which of the following statements holds

Five jurisdictions in Canada require specific notification for any technological changes.

Why do some jurisdictions have legislation to regulate changes in certified unions?

Union mergers have been taking place in substantial numbers throughout Canada's labour history.

One study that examined workplace restructuring in the Ontario supermarket industry found that the union's efforts on behalf of female part-time employees were particularly successful.

What is meant by the term successorship?

What is technological change and of what significance is it to an existing collective agreement? (Pages 364-365)

A common employer declaration states that all the employer's businesses are considered to be a single business for the purposes of certification and the collective agreement.

Why might the certification process intensify the employer's anti-union attitudes?

Any change in business, which involves and expansion, sale or merger requires a declaration of successorship.

Under Canadian labour law, who receives applications for decertification?

What change in a business is not usually part of a declaration of succesorship?

Which of the following is a reason why employers are generally reluctant to have a union in the workplace?